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I'm using NVIM v0.4.3 with set clipboard=unnamed. I can insert special character like üäö in vim just fine, but if I copy content containing special characters in vim and try to paste them outside of vim they appear as garbage. Yanking/pasting inside of vim works just fine.

Examples:

  • inside nvim "über" becomes "√ºber" outside
  • inside nvim "äffchen" become √§ffchen outside

Further Information: I'm running neovim in iTerm2 (zsh) on macOS Catalina.

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  • Which OS? Are you running nvim in a Terminal (if so, which?) or a GUI version of nvim such as nvim-qt?
    – filbranden
    Commented May 3, 2020 at 12:05
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    @filbranden See my edit.
    – user7802048
    Commented May 3, 2020 at 12:26

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Make sure your locale contains the full UTF8 specification to a language; i.e. not something like en_US, but en_US.UTF-8. See this issue.

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    Thank you! This did fix my problem. I added export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to my .zshrc.
    – user7802048
    Commented May 3, 2020 at 13:01

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